Aswan International Airport had received the first charter flight from Iran on 30 March, carrying 45 Iranian tourists, for the first time in 33 years, in an implementation of a tourism convention recently signed between the two countries.

Previously icy relations between Egypt and Iran began to warm this year under President Mohamed Morsy’s leadership, with a visit from President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to Al-Azhar last month.

Egypt halted relations with Iran after the country’s Islamic Revolution in 1979.